latest news on our team shocking video of a legit war crimes emerges appearing to show syrian rebels executing government troops. america's record military budget is off topic as the presidential candidates resume campaigning in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. pussy riot fail to get their claws into copyright in the way they're cathedral sound as a bid to make big bucks from their brand this throne now. welcome to our team this fall and love from all skyline karen tara well evidence of

brutality by syria's rebel fighters has been branded shocking by human rights organizations and the u.n. says the killings of syrian soldiers if confirmed constituted another war crime all mine footage appears to show the summary execution of twenty eight syrian troops in the north the video can't be an independently verified but is seemingly forever also beating and kicking the soldiers some of whom were wounded before shooting them debt it happened after an assault fighters overran an army checkpoints between damascus and aleppo this as one of the rebels main backers to the united states plans an opposition shake up and hand greater influence to frontline militants live now to stop off the top of president of arab lawyers association in london so what do you make of the video to emerge apparently a brutal killings committed by the syrian rebels question honestly i do not believe that this is the first time that has been similar incidents on many occasions. when

the usa having a different view than it has now they're saying it's all committed by. now not suggesting that the regime does not commit these crimes but certainly both sides are doing this this is a very vital crime which is being committed by the government on one side but this particular one is by the revolution or by the uprising. or whoever but i'm not so sure who the identity of those people are and therefore it is a war crime in any. shooting people after they surround and specially of the people is a war crime. more domestic international and i think this should be viewed and right now but what are the chances of the perpetrators ever reaching courts i mean it's not happened in libya. it's very i don't think there was any any chance of this is likely to happen because quite honestly i think the the western world which created

the international court of justice does not want to talk parade except when they wish it didn't happen it didn't happen in the crimes that were committed in iraq it didn't happen the crimes happened in afghanistan and it is not likely to happen when it is in syria because these companies that took where the western powers in particular nato and the usa and france therefore the international justice is not to look into these things specially if one recognizes or remembers that the usa has withdrawn from that agreement or refused to sign the agreement on the contrary it signed multiple agreements with multiple countries that their soldiers would not be subject to their war crimes so i don't think it is likely this is from the political side and i think on the practical side it's also . to identify the perpetrators mr mcveigh those behind these killings don't seem like the same. i'm opposition syrians who are demanding more rights so why are they

being backed by western states well i think the western states were willing to back anybody the western states especially do what i say and france where willing to probably separate fires have the population of syria to get rid of the regime they were not choosey in there and back in their backing anybody anybody who actually pause. on a fire which is burning is actually participating in the crowd this is what the us is doing this is what france europe and the u.k. are doing and this is the reason why for instance kofi annan had to abandon the the mission he said if you want to change the regime go and do it if you want to me to stop the killing don't stop pouring the patrol on the fire this is what the little brahimi is facing you know and the second attempt to try and stop the killing there but i think the western nations they are talking one way and acting in another way but i think what is amazing it what happened yesterday when the secretary of state

of the usa has dramatically changed its position from its one hundred eighty degree turn when they suddenly when they were pushing all the world to recognize the council as the to estimate the only one which represents the syrian people now they decided it doesn't simply because they say that they have realized that most of the people have been living outside we all know but i'm going to you and see them and all the others how do you not mean just simply for the last thirty forty years the u.s. knew this if we people ordinary people know that the u.s. with all its abilities certainly should have known or do know i think and i think now they're changing the rules of the game. more thought of president of arab lawyers association in london thank you. as america's eastern seaboard works to get life back to normal after superstorm sandy. so both barack obama and mitt romney

resume electioneering in the final days before the vote the damage done by the deadly storm has put at about fifty billion dollars but neither candidates ready to dip into the massive military budget help pay for it looks at the cost of such policies. our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined china russia france united kingdom you name it america has a responsibility and the privilege of helping defend freedom we've got to strengthen our military long term i will not cut our military budget in a post nine eleven america the pentagon's budget has grown more than forty percent averaging half a trillion dollars per year critics say a new party or president in the white house won't change the policies firmly cemented in washington is that both of these men are very much continuations of the

military industrial complex is domination of our political system in our democracy so when they keep talking about how they're going to supply jobs increasingly that's where the jobs come from. both foreign interventions and also this giant so-called homeland security department price of defending the homeland critics say continues to come at a grave cost to civil liberties this war on terror you know what led to what we discussed or the n.b.a. now you have military might will ease you know cracking down on protesters now you have this massive empire in order to sustain move there. you need to have peacekeepers. to make sure that the war rages are earlier this year the former cia director applauded president obama for closely following the controversial policies of his part assessor and despite a campaign that was based upon a very powerful promise of transparency president obama and again in my view quite

correctly. has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts as much as president bush more than six and a half thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed fighting america's post nine eleven wars and nearly fifty thousand have been wounded in action a reported quarter million americans who have fought in iraq or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war like the deaths and the injuries but what happens afterwards you know you have these they're basically better is coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and this in terms of the society is that somebody wants you know do we want

as a society where we have important members of our communities in the coming coming home with problems and that's the reality of war in the two thousand and twelve fiscal year taxpayers funded a u.s. defense budget of five hundred forty four billion dollars it's estimated that some could provide two million military veterans with free medical care for thirty five years talking about national defense has been almost sacrosanct you know sort of like the thanks department one something to question that is to question. something that is unquestionable and that has meant that the largest part of the u.s. government spending has been beyond analysis beyond public scrutiny in four days americans will elect a leader for the next four years regardless of who wins the legacy of war cemented

under the past to us. president's indicate that the roots of the largest defense budget will continue ballooning this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or he wrote stability of forty three are going up right now marty. obama and romney have laid into each other's views on cash for the military and how to maintain the armed forces but some observers say this money would be better spent elsewhere there's no more important issue in america today than i have which we are spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go most americans know that this is wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in

a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this is sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these illnesses wars over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union and there are necessary wars that happen to you know it happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. ending moore's and slashing military spending are calls you'll hear from the jama crowd or republican campaigns but there are presidential candidates making those calls they're the third party candidates who are shunned by the mainstream but are getting a voice here on r t the final round of long debates is here on monday. and. we should not. we need to cut the budget for the troops and we

should end the war in afghanistan. in the first. leg. it's time to drop the masks in canada lawmakers composites a pill that slipped jail protesters who hide their faces during rallies for ten years we reveal more in a few minutes. greece goes gunning for journalists who know too much as a reporter who says he's gunned down on the deficit gets arrested all those details just ahead.

what's the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because swords are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who is shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes a certain kind of person who enjoys abusing their uniform to make the helpless suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with napoleon complexes in the police

and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. will two parties keep us politic. it's a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power that. was if america changes try. us elections close guy monday november fifth on or to. download the official application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v.

all you need is your mobile device watch r t any time any. welcome back you're watching r t live from moscow hiding your face during riots in canada will be regarded as a crime and could get you jailed for ten years parliaments pass a contentious bill introduced to tackle street violence kind of the same massive demonstrations in recent years including those at the g twenty summit in toronto two thousand and ten and a student protest against tuition fee hikes earlier this year a new law which still means the senate approval will not apply to peaceful rallies canadian radio reporter michael florian says it doesn't target vandalism but does criminalize anti-government protests. this law basically what it does is that it

will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example you know and across go back in any major city about where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest or a nonviolent protest. that could be dependent on unlawful assembly if you have enough presented your itinerary and the directions of according to your protests routes to the police force of the municipality and come back before the protests started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inherit right to go out and express our opinions me able to go to the streets and take to the streets in a peaceful manner when i was covering as a reporter the major i guess the protests that were happening in downtown montreal because of the student protests that were happening there basically what i saw from microsoft is that i was even attacked for basically just filming police for doing

my job for being able to report on the story what what's happening here and i mean some extent people said to me well you know you have understand they're only doing their job that on a certain extent i think. greece should be bringing to book of those in government who brought the country to its knees but one journalist who tried to do just that remains under arrest right now spiegel scott outs of it is swept into custody straight after appearing on t.v. saying he had proof that the deficit data that led to greece's bailout was fabricated another journalist was tried for publishing a list of a legit top tax evaders but he was quickly acquitted an apparent blow to the government investigative journalist gavin mcfadden says whistleblowers who strive to reveal the truth are being persecuted by governments around the world. time ago i'm very concerned about seeing a great journalist arrested it's a disgrace and much has to be done by our own international organization to protect him and to protect others like him we have problems also in serbia and in bosnia

herzegovina many places where journalists are at risk against organized crime in italy a reporter is at risk a newspaper simply won't publish things so we have a problem of the fear and during the iraq war here one journalist one hundred b.b.c. radio early in the morning a man named gilligan and he said a few things about what actually happened which we know now to be entirely true and he has his career was destroyed the b.b.c. board of governors had to resign the director general of the b.b.c. left the b.b.c. and that's why capping in some latin american countries but it's. and that's the degree of pressure there is a journalist not to say things the way they really know them to be journalists are at risk politically all the time and it's our job to support them. israel could learn the hard way that friends are always there when you need them most explain more and if the turks are wrong don't expect the world's biggest military machine to come running to her as we report online. and in israel at mit's the notorious

assassination of one of yasser arafat's key deputies with a rare declassified insight into the raid and i don't need to. be jailed punk band pussy riot sound to have lunch with them and global headlines but know their potential to cash in on the fame sol battle commence overcall be right lucy confidence has the details pussy riot the members of the band themselves may be toiling away in hard labor as a result of their. protest stunts behind me at the price they were cathedral but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to cash in on the pussy riot brand shockingly enough the wife of one of the pussy riot attorneys has applied for a permit to essentially gain ownership of the brand rights in order to put out t. shirts and other various items this application has been rejected today we just learned that information so that's not going to happen but that hasn't stopped

people from expressing outrage over the commercialization of this situation the band members themselves had said that this is supposed to be a political protest a nonprofit movement they're not happy with the fact that this is turning into a profit venture we've even also heard reports of there's a thirty thousand pound contract to put a full feature movie about pussy riot into works now the band has come under international attention over there are stunned at the cathedral there was a high profile trial here in russia where they were queues of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and as a result they got sentenced to labor in the end in a work camp one of the members was released october today actually the prime minister to meet. spoke out about this issue and said that while he personally doesn't necessarily agree with their tactics and thinks that they have served their time and it's time for them to end the sentences for the remaining two members now

as for the commercialization of pussy riot we've seen a lot of high profile celebrities coming to to the pussy riot because madonna apparently is selling t. shirts in support of pose the ride for nineteen bucks a pop unclear where those profits are going and we've also actually seen the pussy riot turn into the punchline of a comedy show called south park that broadcasts in the us the episode was essentially making fun of people who rallied towards various causes without actually understanding what those causes are all about and in it jesus christ came down and yelled at a bunch of the characters for wearing various protest bracelets saying that people shouldn't be expressing their political opinions on the bracelets but instead on t. shirts that he revealed his jesus christ robes to show a free pussy riot t. shirts and now more of the world's news this hour and activists from both frame has been sentenced to six months in jail for insulting me gulf nations came on twitter three other people are awaiting verdict on similar charges next week for

a new band public protest on tuesday resulting in harsh criticism from the u.n. and the u.s. the island's shiite muslim majority wants greater rights and freedom in the sunni roots kingdom. have been rallies in cities across iran with thousands chanting anti-american british and is really slogans they marked the anniversary of the nine hundred seventy nine crisis when revolutionary students storm the american embassy in teheran and held fifty two stuff that incidents severed relations between iran and the us which have never recovered sense. for chinese patrol ship have entered disputed waters around an arc lago claimed by both beijing and japan the vessels have sailed through the area for the fourteenth straight day ignoring the. certain warnings from tokyo a small chain of uninhabited isles are such a hold of vast reserves of natural resources territorial fallout has previously sparked mass protests in both china and japan. germany is trying to trying hard to

ditch its nuclear energy but the result is that electricity prices i mean manufacturing powerhouse are getting shocking spitter all over reports the other staying is that the country is having to be decidedly on grain to fuel its future. it was a resoundingly no new clear from the german chancellor to be able abandon nuclear power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as a country within that we can become pioneers on the way to create an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is the hardest but security concerns are very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin reduction of nuclear energy in germany potomac energy accounted for just under eighteen percent of german electricity in two thousand and eleven can renewable take up slack

government figures show that for every wind farm built to generate three thousand megawatts the amount needed to power three million homes the only expected to deliver nine hundred megawatts to the national grid in reality though over the last ten years they've only been getting around half of that slightly over sixteen percent of the original three thousand which is force germany back into the arms of fossil fuel with nuclear power taken off the table by angola merkel germany is building a new fleet of coal fired power stations this would mean it's a cologne over the stores an ogress of this year and it's up to these new power stations to provide germany with the electricity it's crying out for electricity prices are key for the international competitiveness of the ones. metals industry if the electricity price increases by once and total cost i'm freezing one hundred eighty millions per year industry is already feeling the pinch the steel workers in

north rhine-westphalia went on strike to try and save their mill from closure it didn't work they may not be the only ones germany's importing more and more electricity from abroad which will mean higher prices some plants have closed in germany some spots threaten to close. the companies off thinking to relocate their new investments to countries abroad germany's neighbors don't share in safety concerns over nuclear power france uses atomic energy to generate the vast majority of its electricity whereas to the east poland is set to invest over fourteen and a half billion euros in the construction of eight new nuclear power plants one of them around one hundred kilometers from the german city of dresden feature all over r.t. germany. and on a couple of minutes an intense debate with peter lavelle and his gas that's coming your way across town.

i never thought i could earn a living this way. should just small arms so that's what i was too ashamed building client a lot of us lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the plants history goes from making far last year in world war two to ballistic missiles from your. submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans cells here also became the heart of soviet military production

closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the truck factory russia's number one truck made for grabs a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these johnsons sold around the globe hit a base a brand new be no way to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronze conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully it if i can get up that. i can go far to drive.

well that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to trouble to walk every morning was with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my. money speak to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's. the teaching for the world talks about fifty yards pee into the street intriguing story to tell you. troy arabic for me visit our. big teeth don't call. it.

blowing welcome to cross talk i'm sure a little sandy has come and gone but in the storm's wake all the conversations around the climate change return to american political discourse and debate politicians on both sides of the aisle agree that much needs to be done to prepare for future super storms and continued severe weather what is not agreed upon is the strategy ahead. to cross-talk climate change i'm joined by patrick michaels in washington he is the director of the center for the study of science at the cato institute in ottawa we have been the rand corp he is a former professor of physics at the university of ottawa and then where we cross to richard noam he is a lecturer at the university of edinburgh all right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want patrick you're in washington do you think in the wake of.